Along with new functionality, systemd is broadening its distro support even further, which will surely delight members of the wider Linux community.

Systemd v259-rc1 is the first preview release of what will be the next version of the most widely used system and service manager in the Linux world. It is also, of course, the most controversial, and some of the changes in this version further widen systemd’s scope – which we suspect will provoke some push-back, but probably won’t slow down its adoption or growth.